Lodgings

[adamandpolly]

Graceful, well-appointed, with a respectable address and a number of wide, airy rooms. 'Airy' if they weren't a mile underground, anyhow.

This post is open for anyone to pay calls, leave messages, throw stones at the windows, or whatever else you like.

The townhouse itself is brick and extremely well-kept. The inside is very tastefully decorated with very nice furniture, and it is extremely neat and clean. From the look of it, it would be impossible to tell that the place is owned by a child. There is an almost complete lack of a personal touch, at least from the current owner. It is well-decorated, but none of the paintings are of family. The only thing close is an aged painting in a little-used part of the house of a young couple and a child that, while it is not Polly, does look similar.

Things of note:

A study contains carefully-filed notes on her "work." It is used mostly for filing away old projects, and the door is kept closed.

The sitting room is her most-used room. A desk has neat, sorted notes and papers and sometimes books pertaining to her current projects. Bookshelves are full of extremely varied works, sorted alphabetically by subject and then alphabetically by author. A glance would show topics ranging from scientific treatises to encyclopedias to works of fiction to classics, etc. The coffee table is usually covered in very simple books and notebooks and very sturdy pens, probably for teaching Adam. A knitted plush lizard, a heavy ring of various keys, and a locked book sit on an end table next to Polly's favorite chair, at least when Polly does not have them on her person.

The mantle over the fireplace in the sitting room seems to be used to keep sentimental objects. Sitting in the center of the mantle is a small vase of paper roses, given to her by Jeremy. Next to it is an origami thingie, also from Jeremy. There is an "Exquisite Toy" Ballerina (once part of a set with a Soldier) next to a Ball and Cup. (This is meant as a compliment to the maker of the second toy, Louis, although neither appears to have been played with.) A Silver Horse Talisman taken from a dream and a pair of Campaign Medals given to her by a Regretful Soldier sits on top of an Invitation to the House of Chimes. (The reason for invitation and acceptance is not visible, as it is on the inside.) A small, golden picture frame lies face-down. The picture inside the frame has been turned around backwards so it is not visible. On top of the frame are two small, clouded jars, neither of which have any unique identifying features. If unstoppered and looked into, each contains a single dead bee.

Family: (Deceased)



Friends/Employees: (Other than Adam)


Paul. Leader of a small rat gang, ever since his brother Silas died.
Alice. A motherly, albino rat with extremely powerful, tiny spectacles with comically large lenses.



Lin Baoyu The Beestung Navigatrix. A woman of obvious Oriental descent with a polite, professional manner. A bit quiet and given to melancholy, though. She's pretty well covered in bee-sting scars and has obvious dark shadows under her eyes. Fond of zailing. Has a very artful serpentine Chinese dragon tattoo that wraps around her arms, body, and legs. Doesn't live at the townhouse, but she is there sometimes.


Eulalia, "Lia", The Laconic Prodigy. A rather infamous urchin girl of few words and fancy hat. Not many urchins can get their hands on a devilish fedora, much less keep it. Her almond-shaped eyes, brown skin, and rough hair that hangs in loose dreadlocks all mark her ancestry as unusual. What might be a burn scar, a severe gunpowder burn, or an extensive scraping scar runs over her left arm to her left cheek and chin, though it is not her only scar. Known as dangerous, smart, stealthy, and fiercely independent.

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for old time's sake!

[jeremy well (from livejournal.com)]

There are some parcels left at the lodgings a few days before Christmas. Most of them are finely wrapped and all of them have no cards or notes that says who is giving what to her. It'll take some guessing as to see who gave what to her. Well. Except that one gift, an intricate music box that when opened depicts the zee that has a moving ship full of Clay Men riding in the waves, that happens to have have a drawing of Adam and Polly pinned to it. His art skills are getting better is all that could be said on the matter.

The first present is a decorated fan that is the color of the Neath -- All darks colors with slivers of amber and 'stars'. At first it just seems to be a fan until one notices how there seems to be lens of some sort sticking out of the leaves, part of the sticks somehow. Further inspection will reveal that it happens to be an odd combination of both a fan and a scope of some sort if you close it and look through the lenses.

The second present is a collection of whistles, all silver and varying sizes from very tiny to very large. A note that has a gentleman's handwriting, stern and clipped, only says it is for her and her friends if they need each's attention right away.

The third present is perhaps more in the spirit of the season. A basket of sweets and cookies, pointedly none with honey as decoration or ingredients, that comes with a bottle of fine wine tucked in. A ribbon that is the color of robin blue secures a poem to the basket, wishing Polly and her friends a festive time and a wonderful year. The handwriting is of a woman, decorative and lively.

The fourth present is a little odder. It's only an envelope that has one leaf of paper in it, written in a hand that is more of a girl than a woman. On the leaf of paper is a set of directions in the Flit and only a promise that there are 'things' she could use there if she ever needs something difficult to find. If Polly chooses to investigate the directions, she will find a small shack that has crates and sacks and trunks of various knickknacks and items that vary in importance and value.

The fifth and final present is a collection of empty notebooks that come with locks and keys. The quality of the notebooks is alright, made more of use than decoration. The only hint to the giver's identity is the advice -- -- that is found inside the first notebook. A woman's handwriting, plain and blunt.

Re: for old time's sake!

[adamandpolly]

Polly can't help the burning pang of loneliness in her chest as she looks over the drawing. She misses him dearly.